“Please stay in your cars until it stops raining,” we were ordered when we arrived at Super Saturday, the designer garage sale in the middle of a pasture in the Hamptons this weekend. Should storm winds rise above 35 m.p.h., or lightning strike, it was explained, the tent in which the designer goods were housed would be unsafe.

Sounds reasonable, we thought as we ignored the warning and dashed through the torrential downpour. We sidestepped piles of horse dung, and entered the tent, scouting out bargains from Brooks Brothers, Nanette Lepore, Donna Karan, Smythson, and Talbot’s before the sale officially opened.

The violent weather apparently wasn’t enough to put off competitive shoppers, but it did give Kelly Ripa, one of the hosts of the event, which benefits the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, nightmares.

Isaac Mizrahi., by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images.

“I actually turned to [husband] Mark [Consuelos] and said, ‘My nightmare has finally happened: it is raining on Super Saturday. My nightmare is upon us,” Ripa said. “I cried three times in the past eight hours,” she added. She also nixed her original choice of outfits, a long flowing maxi-dress, and opted for a sensible short skirt and Hunter boots to trudge through the muck.

With shopping the order of the day, we asked Isaac Mizrahi if he’s ever had buyer’s remorse after an expensive purchase. “So many things, are you kidding? I have storage spaces full of things I regret having bought,” he told us. “I’m not kidding. But I do think that some day they will actually be useful. So I’m actually working right now, with two assistants, on a really good inventory of all this stuff.”

An example: “I used to be under this crazy assumption that if you went to Savile Row, you would get a good suit. If you paid like £7,000 for a suit, chances are it’s going to be really good. Not so. It’s the same as any other tailor in the world. It’s very hit or miss, so for every seven suits you get, one is amazingly perfect and great, and the rest suck. So I have, literally, 20 or 30 suits made on Savile Row by various tailors in storage, no kidding, that I will someday do something with. I don’t know, it’ll be, like, an exhibit at the Met of clothes I never wore.”

The rain did eventually let up, and the daylong festival, which included carnival activities for children as well as beauty, hair, and manicure stations, went off without incident. People were lined up for the psychic reader all day, perhaps hoping the seer would predict the end of this insane weather.

Over at the Bridgehampton polo club nearby, the day’s match had been canceled thanks to the rain, but the party was still on, and we checked out the Rolls-Royce cars strewn around the lawn while sipping wine and sampling caviar from Pointy Snout. While many Real Housewives past and present (like Jill Zarin and Kyle Richards, all the way from Beverly Hills) were milling about, polo player Nacho Figueras, a club partner, was nowhere to be found. “He’s still over at Super Saturday, shopping,” a staffer told us.